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    Posted: 21-Apr-2007 at 15:16
Why some of the ancient bronze coins look like beer caps?
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Well the Greeks were vinos, not lagerlouts, and those look Greek to me.

Maybe a better question is why do beer caps look like coins?
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That was a commercial gimmik of the Spartan Bru. For hundred of them the usual spartan get a t-shirt of the battle of the 300.
 
                            
 
BCB = Beat Cerxes' Bastards ( even a spartan beer company had a bad orthography)

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LOL
 
 
The sad thing is that in ancient Greek ruins you can usually find modern beer caps and stuff...Disapprove
 
I think that Greeks used wax caps to protect the content of their vases...
 
Anyway, it is bound for those "beer caps" to be just coins(ovolos had even a more strange shape)

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Bottle caps as we know them didn't appear until the late 19th cent. Prior they used porcelain stoppers on a wire bail. 
Grolsch beer still uses them.
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